An impressive bus armada can be seen under the Bavaria, and certainly a good five-digit number of visitors: The demonstration of the Bavarian middle-class civil alliance “Hand in Hand for our Country” begins at 12.11 p.m. on Munich’s Theresienwiese. It is aimed at the demand for a better middle class policy in Berlin. According to their own statements, the organizers expected 35,000 to 50,000 participants. It remains to be seen whether there will actually be that many in the end. But shortly after it began, it was clear that many people followed the call for a demo, despite the rail strike and the beautiful Sunday weather.
Loud cries of “lying press” echoed from the huge crowd when the two organizers, Markus Huber from Bad Feilnbach and Franz Huber from Straubing, announced that the television station ntv was reporting on this demo, but under a completely wrong classification: “Demo against the right – the “Middle class stands up”. This obviously annoys the organizers: They repeatedly emphasize that they are neither left nor right – and that they are coming together because they criticize the current middle class policy. That’s the sole aim of the protest on Theresienwiese. Among the posters in the crowd you can read “The traffic light must go.”
Numerous people followed the call for a demo, despite the rail strike and the beautiful weather.
(Photo: Tom Soyer)
Protest truck at the feet of Bavaria.
(Photo: Tom Soyer)
Welcomed with applause and cleverly mentioned in the same breath so that no party preferences can be expressed: Agriculture Minister Michaela Kaniber (CSU) and Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters). Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) sent a detailed letter and did not come personally.
An alliance of farmers, medium-sized businesses and various trades called for the meeting. The organizers asked participants to travel by public transport – not with tractors and trucks, as has been happening in farmers’ protests nationwide for several weeks.
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